CANADA: Pool Man Found

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Canadian farmers wondered, hoped, that Mr. Bennett had been able to give General Manager McFarland some good reason for saying that he is not going to be a "Liquidator," but rather a Star Statesman. Across a wine-set banquet table Prime Minister Andre Tardieu of France said last week to the World in general and to Prime Minister Bennett of Canada in particular: "Friendship between Canada and France is a long established fact of which there is no question!"*

Mere words — yet they contrasted strongly with the malaprop tongue-wagging of British Minister of Dominions John Henry Thomas who recently flung in Mr. Bennett's teeth that Great Britain knows Canada is looking out chiefly for herself, that the Mother Country will do the same.

Egyptian interest in the Canadian situation focused last week upon a few bushels of wheat recently harvested at Robson, British Columbia, by Farmer Charles A. Bony. "Not that it's the best wheat!" said he, "It's soft and won't fetch much of a price. But there's no other wheat hereabouts that sprouted from grain sealed up 3,000 years ago in the coffin of Tutankhamen."

When the royal tomb was opened in 1922 some wheat grains and other foods were found. In 1926 a friend sent a few of the grains to Farmer Sydney Cunningham of Alberta, who in turn sent grains produced by his original "King Tut Wheat" to Farmer Charles Borry who spoke up last week. Said he stoutly, "I'll plant some more next year."